CVE-2016-1899

Publication date 20 January 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.7 · Low

Score breakdown

CRLF injection vulnerability in the ui-blob handler in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via CRLF sequences in the mimetype parameter, as demonstrated by a request to blob/cgit.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cgit 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
cgit

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.7 · Low
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N